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A figure clad in black leather stood in the shadows at the city's edge, his face concealed behind sunglasses, like a judge from hell. He toyed with a menacing heavy weapon, his mechanically amplified voice carrying a spine-chilling arrogance:
"Devil, get out here! Hand over Angelina and those three Energy Crystal Balls! Those hundred combat vehicles were just an appetizer. This time, I've brought an array of ten thousand! If you don't hand them over, I'll flatten this city with ten thousand shells and wipe it off the map!"
Xun Uchiha frowned slightly and turned toward his companions. "Looks like they want more than our lives."
Fayan Luo narrowed his eyes, his gaze piercing the thick dust to fix on the black-clad man's back. "Strange. With such a vast area, how did they pinpoint this place? And... Angelina was right in the core zone. Why weren't her vital signs completely erased?"
In the corner, Angelina's face was pale. She clutched the hem of her clothes, her eyes filled with anger and resentment. "It's all that damned... fault."
"You forgot something important." Little Bird, who had remained silent until now, suddenly spoke. She raised her wrist, and a dark green scanning beam shot from the rim of her Electronic Mirror, enveloping Angelina. As the light swept over her, a hidden signal source emerged-a tiny biological chip implanted beneath her skin.
"Found it." Little Bird sneered and flicked a fingertip. "With a life detector of this grade, as long as there's a breath left in you, it'll keep transmitting your coordinates. No wonder they could strike so precisely."
Before she had finished speaking, a strange trace of atomic fluctuation rippled across her palm. In an instant, the indestructible metal chip oxidized and crumbled like rotten wood ravaged by time, turning into